Date: 06/07/2012

Maggie Shapland has spent more than 1,500 hours of her life in a dark underground tunnel in the depths of the Avon Gorge. Far from being a penance, though, this has been a labour of love a love that, over the past few years, she and other enthusiasts have passed on to thousands of Bristolians.

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Entrance to the Clifton Rocks Railway, Bristol, a hydraulically powered funicular within the cliff face of the Avon Gorge, closed in 1934. [See image 33145]
Location: Clifton
Company: Clifton Rocks Railway
11/03/2003 Ewan Crawford

View across the Avon from the Portishead branch on 15 February towards the lower entrance to the Clifton Rocks Railway, a funicular built within the cliff face of the Avon Gorge. Closed since 1934, the Clifton Rocks Railway Trust has been formed with the objective of restoring this unique structure.
Location: Clifton
Company: Clifton Rocks Railway
15/02/2008 Peter Todd

View across the Avon on 11 March, a short distance south of the former Hotsprings railway terminus, showing abandoned landing stages and the lower entrance to the Clifton Rocks Railway, built into the face of the Avon Gorge [see image 17977]. The former funicular railway, closed in 1934, is currently the subject of considerable preservation activity.
Location: Clifton
Company: Clifton Rocks Railway
11/03/2011 Peter Todd